It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.

That's when the idea for Mad About the Boy arrived. It wasn't even a Bridget [Jones] story initially - then I realized I was writing in Bridget's voice and it grew from there into a Bridget novel.

Nobody wants to be racist and I think that most people aren't.

With most of the events in the books [ Bridget Jones Diaries ] I draw a little bit from my own life and some from what I see happening around me.

One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.

In terms of myself, my next big plan is to loose 7llb (as I've been planning to do since I was seventeen) Also to go to the gym three times a week, not merely to buy a sandwich. And also de-clutter the garage.

Singletons should not have to explain themselves all the time but should have an accepted status — like geisha girls do